Sliding catch.



J. GODDARD.

SLIDING CATCH.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 16. 1915.'

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JOSEPH GODDARD, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T SENECA CAMERA MANU- FAOTURING- COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF` NEW YORK.

SLIDING CATCH.

appiieeaon fue@ september 1e, 1915.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOSEPH GoDDAnD, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of N ew York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Sliding Catches, of which the following is a speciication.

This invention relates to means, in the form of a sliding catch, for detachably securing in place the cover of a box or casing.

rllhe object of the invention is to produce a sliding catch which shall be compact, secure, convenient to operate, inexpensive in construction, and neat in appearance, and the invention is designed particularly for application to such a box or casing as that of a folding camera, though it is obviously applicable to other structures of the saine general character. n

lfhe invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, as it is dened in the appended claims.

ln the accompanying drawings:-Figure 1 is a side-elevation of a box or casing provided with a catch embodying the present invention, the catch being shown in its disengaged position, and the cover removed and raised from the body of the box; Fig. 2 is a side-elevation, showing the cover in place and secured by the catch, with a part of the cover broken away to show the catch more fully; Fig. 3 is an end-elevation of the box, partly in section, on the line 3 3 in Fig. 2; and Fig. 4e is a perspective view of the sliding catch-member.

The invention is illustrated as applied to the casing of a folding camera, this camera being of a general form which is well known.

The casing of the camera comprises a body or box having side-walls 5 and a removable sheet-metal cover 6. The cover has sidemembers or lips which fit over the upper parts of the side-walls 5 of the box, and which are seated, at `their lower edges, on shoulders 7 fors-"ed in the walls 5.

The sliding catch-member, as shown particularly in Fig. a, is formed preferably of a single piece of sheet-metalcomprising, integrally, a hoolr 8, an elongated body 9, and a finger-piece 10. The body 9 is arranged to slide longitudinally in a recess 16, which is formed in the outer surface of the sidewall 5, this recess forming a space between Specification of Letters Patent.

)Patented Dec. "3', 19115. serial No. 51,118.

the side-wall and a metal plate 11. The plate 11 is ixed to the side-wall, and constitutes a part of the box or body of the casing. The hook 8 projects upwardly into a space between the side-wall and the cover G, this space being formed, preferably, by a recess 12 of appropriate form in the wall 5. rFhe hook coperates with a detent in the form of a pin 13, screwed into the lip of the cover 6 and projecting inwardly therefrom and into the recess 12. It will be understood that a pair of catches is used in connection with the cover, one at each side thereof. 1n order that the cover may be removed and replaced without interference between the detents 13 and the walls 5, vertical channels 14 extend upwardly from the recesses 12.

The linger-piece of each catch is o'set from the body 9, so that it may project through an elongated slot 15 in the corresponding plate 11, but the greater part of the finger-piece lies flat against the outer surface of the plate, so as not to have any substantial projection beyond the body of the casing. The body-portion 9 of the catch is preferably somewhat curved in its normal condition, as shown in Fig. 4l. Owing to the elastic character of the sheet-metal this does not prevent it from lying straight between the wall 5 and the plate 11, but the resiliency of the metal causes it to press against these parts, so as to produce a friction which tends to retain the catch in either position to which it may be moved.-

With the parts in the position of Fig. 1, the cover may be placed in position, and the catches are then slid, by manipulation of the. linger-pieces 10, to the position of Fig. 2, wherein the cover is securely retained in place by engagement of the hooks 8 with thedetents 13.

While the catch has been described as particularly applicable to a camera-casing, it will be apparent that it is not limited to such application, but may be used for various other purposes, and that the invention is not, in general, limited to the embodiment thereof hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

1 claim:

1. A sliding catch, for use in connection with a box having a cover provided with a lip which overhangs the side-wall of the box, the catch comprising a plate adapted to be xed to the said side-wall below said lip and povided with" a'siot; a body which is' arranged to slide between said wall and said plate; a hook which projects, from the body, into e space between said wall and and comprising an elongated body, :L hook 10 projecting from one odge of the body, and e finger-piece projecting from the opposite edge of the body, the linger-piece lying, for the most part, parallel with the plane of the body but olset therefrom at its junction 15 therewith.

JOSEPH GODDARD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

v Washington, D. C. 

